“Luna!”

Discord cried out as he saw her falling down the stairs with that horrible monster.

“Discord no!” Spike yelled.

Discord quickly ran down after her, only to come face to face with the red eyes bull creature. Spike screamed, telling Discord to come back. Discord was shaking as he looked into his red eyes. It grabbed his chain that was wrapped around his body. Discord saw the hook at the end of it and started running back up to Spike. Discord could hear Luna screaming for his help but there was no way he could get to her. He hated that he left her behind. He told her that he wanted to help her. That they would help each other but where was he now? He couldn’t help her and that was what hurt him the most. The point that he once again made a promise that he couldn’t keep. The point that he couldn't protect her. Spike and Discord ran what felt like forever to them. They didn’t know where to go. They didn’t have a plan. All they could do was run. Discord looked behind him. Neither the bull or his look-alike was behind them, but they still didn’t stop them from running

“I think I know another way around!” Spike said.

“What about Luna?” Discord asked.

“I don’t know…just follow me. I’ll think of something.”

“Spike, what are we doing?”

“Trying to find another way around, so we can get to Luna.”

Spike ran down a long hall. Discord followed him, hoping that Spike knew what he was doing. They ran down the halls and passed the bookshelves. Discord always made sure to look behind them every so often to make sure nothing was following them. He never saw anything, which scared him. Were they hiding somewhere waiting for them to come? He was also worried about Luna. He couldn’t hear her screaming anymore. He hoped that she got away and that she was trying to find them. They ran down another flight of stairs. Spike told Discord that they were close. Discord ran faster. He needed to get to Luna. He needed to know that she was okay.

“We’re close,” Spike whispered. They walked past a bookshelf when spike slowed down and motioned Discord to do the same. They came upon a wide-open space but still stayed hidden. Spike peeked his head out and gasped.

“What’s wrong?” Discord asked.

Spike walked out from the bookshelf. “She’s not here. This was where we were at. She fell here. She should be here,” Spike said. Discord came out from behind soon after.

“What? Where is she? Did she get away?” Discord asked before calling her name. “Luna!”

“Discord, why don’t you be louder? I don’t think our “friends” can hear us!” Spike repeated Discord’s words.

“You’re not helping.”

"Actually, nothing seems to be here," Spike said.

"What do you mean?" Discord asked.

Then all the lights came back on.

Discord teleported himself and Spike back to Canterlot. They needed help and needed it now. They didn't know where Luna was or what was happening to her. They needed to find out what was really going on. They were so close to figuring it out, but they needed to focus on getting Luna back first. Wherever she was at, they needed to get back into the bar to speak to Shredder. He was the only one that they thought could help them and there was only one creature that Spike could think who could help them get to him.

"Misty? Misty?!" Discord asked while Spike knocked hard on the library door.

"Please open up!" Spike begged.

Soon they saw a figure walking up to the door. She unlocked it and then opened it. She gave them both dirty looks.

"Oh great. What the fuck do you bastards want?" she snapped at them.

"Okay, hey. What's with the bad mouth?" Discord asked.

"I don't know. Maybe it's because since you guys entered my life, I been dealing with spirits non-stop. They won't leave me alone."

"I know how that feels," Spike flatly said, crossing his arms.

She rolled her eyes in disgust. "Look, it's getting late. I want to go home. So what do you guys need so badly?"

"Look, we need your help. They took her!" Discord shouted.

"Wait... what? Who's they? Took who?" Misty asked, confusedly.

"Luna... they took Luna!"

Spike and Discord tried to explain but were mostly freaking out and talking at the same time, not really making much sense. Misty looked at them weirdly as they rambled on and on. She couldn't make out any of what they were trying to tell her. It went on like that for a couple of minutes before she spoke up.

"Okay! Okay, stop! Shut up!" she yelled. Discord and Spike both went silent.

"I can't understand what you guys are saying. Take a deep breath and slow down. Okay?"

They both slowly nodded in unison. Spike then took her advice and took a long deep breath to try to calm himself down. Misty waited a minute and when she thought they were calm down enough she continued to speak.

"Okay. Good. Now tell me everything..." she said.

Misty led Discord and Spike back to the bar with Shredder. They walked down a flight of stairs and passed a dragon who was clearly a bodyguard but he let them passed when he saw Misty. She turned her head and faced them.

"Just keep your heads down and follow me. Don't pay attention to any of the people here. Trust me when I say this isn't a place where others don't like to be messed with. So don't do anything stupid. Should be easy enough for you."

"What's wrong with this place?" Discord asked.

"Well, this place isn't meant for... um... " Misty paused, as she gave them a look of disgust."Your kind of people. Just mine. And my kind doesn't really like your kind. Okay? Let's go."

The passageway continued on for several minutes as the three slowly trotted through the now downward winding halls. Loud dark rock and metal music could be heard as they got farther down the pathway. The pathway had led down to what appeared to be a hidden dinner. In appearance, it matched the one above, but on a much grander scale. For starter, they weren't all just ponies. In fact, there were lots of creatures there. On one end of the dinner, Discord could make out what appeared to be a group of Diamond dogs eating and laughing among themselves. Next to them sat two rather large Dragons in what appeared to be a booth built for them. Only a few feet from them, Discord saw a group of Griffins and several ponies chatting with one another. There was a huge bar table were many were at drinking and laughing. Discord made eye contact with two ponies. One of the pony's eyes turned yellow and the other turned red. It almost freaked Discord out when he realized he was falling behind from the others. He quickly ran back to them and caught up. They walked up to a big red door and Misty knocked on it really hard. A couple of seconds later the door opened and standing there was Shredder. He seemed a little stunned to see them. But none the less, he let them all into the room.

"Well, this was unexpected," he calmly replied. He looked at Misty. "Nice to see you again, Misty."

She rolled her eyes and scoffed. "Don't get too excited. I'm not here for you. Just them and Princess Luna."

"I didn't see it any other way," Shredder said calmly.

"Wait, you two know each other?" Spike asked.

Misty signed with her arms cross."Unfortunately."

"Misty look, I apologize for what happened with-"

"No. Don't even go there." Misty snapped harshly as she flew up into his face.

Discord felt the intensity between the two. Shredder clearly did something to get her mad at him but that wasn't important right at the moment. He stepped in between them before they went any further. "I don't mean to interrupt but we are in a little situation that we should probably be worrying about now. So yeah..."

Misty had more which she wanted to say. She started to say something but quickly closed her mouth. She then sighed and shook her head a little. "He's right. We have bigger problems right now,"

"What is it?" Shredder asked.

"It's not good. It's about Luna," Spike said.

"What about her?" Shredder asked.

"Well, you see- " Discord began.

"Wait." Shredder stood up from his chair and walked up to Discord. He lifted up his hand up close to Discord's face. Discord felt weird and uncomfortable.

"What are you doing?" Discord asked.

"Seeing," He answered. He put his hand down and nodded slowly. "I see. We do have a big problem."

"Wait? Do you just read his mind?" Spike asked.

"Well of course."

Discord covered his head."Hey, no mind reading. That's rude and really creepy. Plus, you don't want to see what's in my head."

"You're right. I don't. So in other word do you have any idea where Luna could be?"

"No, we don't. That's why we came to you," Spike said. "We need help."

Shredder looked over at Discord. "You need to get to Luna."

"Great. Like we didn't know that already," Misty snapped.

"Hey, you're not helping," Spike said.

"Um excuse me. Who got you into this club again? It sure wasn't the Draconequus."

"Don't bring me into this," Discord said.

Shredder smirked a little. "Humorous but not what I meant. I mean that Discord here has to get to her the same way he's been getting to Silver Blitz."

"What do you mean?" Discord asked.

"You were going to her through your dreams. You need to do the same but only this time for Luna. You need to go inside Luna's mind just like you been doing for Sliver Blitz. "

"What?" Discord asked again.

"You're a soul dreamer. You can go to Luna through your dream."

"I don't understand," Discord signed, annoyed.

"Do you even know what that is?" Shredder asked.

"Luna told me that it was like her powers but I go to the "waking world " instead," Discord said.

"Well, she's half right. You don't go into dreams but you don't necessarily go to the "waking world" or however she words it. You go to the world where spirits reside when they are trying to avoid crossing over or have unfinished business," Shredder told them.

"Wait. What?" Discord didn't even understand what he was hearing anymore. The last few weeks he had been hearing a lot of crazy stuff and seeing a lot of crazy shit but it seemed no matter what he did that his situation was getting more crazier and chaotic. Even for him.

"We call it The Nether," Misty spoke up. She was leaning on a wall.

"The Nether?" Discord asked.

"A world within a world. Our world within theirs," Spike said.

Discord faced Spike and gave Spike a mad look. "You knew this? Why didn't you tell me this sooner?"

Spike responded with a stern glare. "Would you have believed me? Or take advantage of it?"

Discord thought about the question for a moment before nodding his head and placed his paw, padding spike on the head. "You did the right thing."

"So? You ready to go to Luna?" Shredder asked.

"I don't have much of a choice, do I?"

He smirked and laughed a little. "I've been doing a lot of thinking about what you guys told me. I knew that somehow your stories had to connect in some way but I didn't know how. Now I'm beginning to see what's going on," Shredder began.

"You do?" Spike asked excitedly.

"Yes, I believe so. If I am correct, it sounds to me that Silver Blitz wants to cross over but can't because Berry Tarts is somehow preventing her."

"Can he do that?" Discord asked.

"It is possible for spirits to be trapped by some other demonic presence that can prevent them from crossing over. It is rare because they have to be extremely powerful and most of the time it is known that demons can do it but I guess it is possible that the spirit can as well," Spike explained to Discord.

"That's correct. I think that Silver Blitz has been hiding in your mind knowing that he cannot follow nor be able to tell that she's hiding in there."

"How would you know that?" Discord questioned.

"Soul dreamers can't...oh how do I word it. Be detected by spirits or demons," Shredder asked.

"Okay. Continue."

"So she tells you what's going on and you tell Luna than you two go to the house and stop him. I think that's what she wants," Shredder finished.

"So why take Luna then?" Misty asked.

"I'm not done. There's vengeance coming from him. He is mad at her for something. I don't know why though. Regardless, I believe he cursed her."

Spike and Discord eyes widened. "What?!" They both shouted.

"And wants her to go through the same fate as Silver Blitz," Discord finished Shredder's statement.

"Yes," Shredder answered. "How did you guess this?"

"At the hospital when Luna was first sent there, she woke up and told me that something was after her. That she didn't want to end up like Silver Blitz." Discord recalled back when Luna first woke up and how she panicked. Discord knew that Luna didn't remember telling him that but it was like for that moment she really did know what was really going on. Discord wondered if he should have told her about that. At the time, he didn't understand what it meant. It did not seem relevant but now it seemed to make sense with everything else.

"It seems that he wants her," Shredder said.

"Who? Berry Tarts?" Spike asked.

"Okay. If he wants revenge why not just kill her and get it over with?" Misty asked.

"That doesn't matter. All that matters is getting to her," Spike said.

"He's right, " Shredder said. He looked over to Discord. "You ready?"

"I guess I am," Discord shrugged."As ready as I can be."

"All right then. I need you to go to sleep now," Shredder said.

"Wait, just one question. How come we can't use our magic when they are around?" Discord asked.

"There was a time when anyone could use their magic with them. That was a long time ago. However, many began to abuse it. They started forcing spirits to work as slaves and preventing them from crossing over. Things like that. So a curse was made so that the living couldn't hurt the dead. Just only a few can," Shredder explained to them all.

"Well, like who?" Spike asked.

"Magic brought by natural. That's why witches use sacrifice animals. It comes from nature."

"Okay, makes sense. I guess," Discord responded.

"Yes but in other words, you need to go to sleep now," Shredder said.

"What? Like now or later now?" Discord asked. He looked around the room. There was no place for him to lay down at none the less sleep at.

"Now," Shredder answered sternly.

"Where do I lay down?" Shredder grabbed Discord by his horn and started pulling Discord to his chair. "Ouch. Ouch. You know this hurts?" Shredder said nothing as he pulled. Discord could tell that he was getting impatience with him. He sat him down a chair by Shredder's desk.

"Now close your eyes and go to sleep..." he whispered.

"Right now? But I'm not tired," Discord said. Shredder signed and walked away from them and went up to a big shelf filled with bottles filled with potions and spells books that looked really old, covered in dust and other sorts of items. They seemed to be antiques and knick-knacks that had no meaning whatsoever. He grabbed a small jar that had what look to be green dust. He walked to Discord as the others continued to speak.

Spike groaned loudly at Discord's respond. Misty just scoffed and smirk for his actions was no surprise to her. "Please don't start up now, Discord."

"What? I can't. It's not my fault!" Discord defended himself.

"Just close your eyes," Misty said angrily. Discord pouted and closed his eyes. He waited a few seconds, humming to himself. He opened them again.

"This isn't going to work," Discord said. "How do we even know that I'll be able to find her?"

"Well, if Berry Tarts has her, where else would she be?" Spike asked.

"I don't know but I still don't think that-"

Shredder then got in front of Discord's face and before he could say anything or finish his sentence, Shredder through the odd green dust from the jar into Discord's face. Discord sightly back up in surprise but suddenly felt tired and soon he closed his eyes and fell asleep. Spike and Misty said no words as they watched Discord go to sleep. They now could only hope that he could save Luna.

"Well...that's one way to do it," Spike simply said.

"Indeed. But he doesn't have much time. Princess Luna is breaking. It's only a matter of time," Shredder said.

Spike looked up at him, confused. "Before what?"

"Before she breaks."

"What does that mean?" Misty snapped.

"He wants to do more than just kill Luna. He wants to destroy her. Trapped her in an eternity of Hell like Silver Blitz. But he can't kill her. She's special."

"Special?" Misty asked. "What do you mean?"

"I mean she is not just an ordinary pony now, is she? He won't be able to kill her no matter what he does. Only she can do that herself. Once it's done, he will have complete control of her," Shredder said.

"What do you mean by that?" Spike asked even though he kinda knew the answer already. Spike didn't want to believe that Luna could be capable of doing such a thing but because of her actions from her past, Spike couldn't doubt it.

"You think she would?" Spike worded carefully. Shredder signed sadly at Spike. Spike said no more after that.

"Are you kidding me?! Why didn't you tell Discord this?!" Misty yelled at him. "He should know this."

He smiled. "Just testing something."

Misty shook her head. "Of course you are. Just another one of your bullshit tricks."

"Just wait. I have complete hope that Discord will be able to help her," Shredder said as he looked at Discord's unconscious body.

Discord found himself back in at the house in the living room. He wasn't shocked. At this point, he used to it. However, that didn't make him less scared. He began to hear screaming that could be heard around the whole house. Discord couldn't tell if it was Luna or somepony else but his gut was telling him it was Luna. He walked up to the stairs once more for that was where the sound was coming from. He was fearful of what was happening to Luna. Was she even still alive? Discord has seen what this monster was capable of. Who knows what he did to her? Discord feared the worse for her. She could be dead just like the others.

"No. Don't think like that. She's fine."

He got to the top of the stairwell. The screaming got even louder as he got closer. Discord turned and looked down the long hall that led to Silver Blitz's room. Discord felt himself getting sick as a million thoughts came to him on Luna's well-being. But he had to hope for the best. He remembered what Luna had told him about her having nopony to go to for help. She suffered for so long because she felt like she didn't have anypony. She felt all alone and fearful but never said anything till now. But she did have somepony. Discord knew the truth. He knew he could help her. Discord made a promise and this time he was going to make sure he kept it.

"Now let's go find her."

He shivered, as though, ice had replaced his spine as he walked down the hall. The cold air enveloped throughout his entire body. A musty, dank order creep into his nose. Black and brown mold dotted the ceiling in clusters, evident of rain seeping through the roof. Sharp shadows roamed around the room. He stood and peered at the top, wondering when a twisted head person will crawl down and have him for dinner. He summoned the strength and tiptoed slowly to Silver Blitz's room. Each step intensified the moaning and creaking as if the steps could collapse at any moment. He turned to the right and met his final destination. The door did not give way easier, a forceful push was needed to get the door open. He took a deep breath before walking in. Stepping inside, he looked around the room, a dresser seem to have been pushed against the door, attempting to deny anyone entry. He could make out the silhouette by the bed, edging in closer for a better look.

Sure enough, it was Luna. Laying on the floor, unconscious. She was tossing around and screaming. He ran up to her and tried to wake her up. He shook her really hard while calling her name to get her to wake up. However, she wouldn't wake up. Discord looked down at her. It reminded him about the night at the cemetery. He heard her screaming and ended up finding her unconsciousness, screaming. Just like what just happened now. Except, this time he knew why and what was going on.

"Luna, please wake up," he begged and pleaded but it was no use. There were no signs of her waking up. He held her in his arms and looked down at her as she continued to scream. She was in so much pain. What was she even dreaming about? Did she know it was a nightmare? Most likely not. Discord could see how much she was hurting. It killed him that he could do nothing about it. It was like looking at Silver Blitzs except Luna was older. Luna told him this wasn't the first time it has happened to her. He could only imagine what else been done to her and the worst part was that nopony knew or at least didn't care enough to know. It almost pissed him off. How did Celestia not see how much Luna was really hurting? He could tell something was off the moment he saw her but everypony else...they didn't notice anything.

"You won't be able to wake her up."

Discord looked up and saw Silver Blitzs standing there. He sighed. The more he thought about it, the more Discord realized that Spike was right. She has been the one controlling everything. She has been telling him and Luna what to do and where to go the whole time. The worst part was that they willingly listened to every little thing she told them. They have been following her around and helping her. And yet all she has done for them was give them more questions and some golden Phoenix that Discord didn't even know what to do with. It all seemed pointless now seeing where it has gotten them at. Discord began to think that maybe Silver Blitzs wasn't all she said to be. It would make sense now.

"What are you doing here?"He retorted at her. She seems slightly astonished at Discord's tone but didn't seem to be too upset at him. She shrugged and trotted closer to him and Luna.

"I'm here to help," she stated to him.

"You're too late for that," Discord snarled in rage.

"Why are you mad at me?" she asked.

Discord voiced deepen as he scoffed. "Why am I mad? Are you serious? Are you really asking me that?"

"I mean-" she began to say before Discord cut her off.

"No. Shut up. You don't get to talk right now. I have been risking my life...my friends lives to save your ass. And look where it has gotten us. We still don't know how to stop him and now Luna is going to die. Because of you. Because you or Dusty wouldn't tell us what was going on! How do I ever know that you're not one of them? Huh? How did I?"

She eyes started to water and began to cry. "I just wanted help. I told you everything that you needed to know. I knew you would believe but Luna was different. Even if Dusty told her, she wouldn't have done anything. She needed help. Somepony who would understand and be willing to guide her here."

"And it just happened to be me?" Discord asked. Silver Blitz shrugged in respond.

"I guess so," She answered. Discord looked back at Luna. He needed to save her but also needed to know if he could trust Silver Blitzs. He didn't want to doubt but it this point he didn't know what to think of her.

"You told me to stay away at first. Now you just want to always come here."

"I wanted to go to you but you came to me. You said you would be. Please trust me. Please don't walk away."

"You want me to trust you? Tell me how to save her," Discord decided. Silver Blitz smiled at the point that Discord still hasn't given up at her and was giving her a chance.

"Oh that super easy. You just got to go into her dreams," she said.

"What?" he asked.

"You know as she does?"

"Okay. Sounds easy enough. How do I wake her up?" he then asked her. She thought to herself for a moment.

"I-I don't know," she stuttered.

"What do you mean by that?"

"I mean he did something to her. I tried already to wake her up. She won't though," she said with regret. "All I know is that he attached himself to her. He was in her head. He could see and hear what she saw and heard. It's why I went to you. There was no way for him to find out what I was doing. But right now you have to save her. Maybe you'll have better luck going inside her dreams."

"I guess I can try," he said.

"Be careful."

"Don't worry. I will."

He picked up Luna and sat her down on Silver Blitz's bed. He got down on his knees and stared at her. Luna continued to scream to whatever she was dreaming about. He thought about everything that had happened to him and Luna. All that they had been through. He never saw any of this coming. Out of everything that he been through, he never knew that he would be stuck in such a situation. It wasn't even the monsters or the pain that he was forced to face that made him mad. It was of how scared he really was. He remembered when he was a child and was told by many when he was ever scared "There is nothing to fear but fear itself," yet now, seeing Luna, he began to think that wasn't true. There are many things that are worse than fear. The truth, for him at least, in those words, are a warning that fear can change who they are inside and how they feel about things; make anypony compromise where they should stand firm. If fear was an animal, something that could put a face on, and you knew that in order for you to have a life of some sort of bliss or peace you would have to kill it. Something impossible to do. But Discord knew what he had to do. He promised Silver Blitzs that he would help her and promised Luna that he would protect her. He failed a lot of promises in his life but these were ones that he refused to fail. A part of Discord knew that he would never be the same after this was over. He was scarred and changed for life. Maybe that didn't have to be a bad thing. Discord took a deep breath and put his claw on Luna's head. He closed his eyes. He had come up with a theory. If it was his so-called "dreamer powers" that allowed him to entered Silver Blitz's and Luna minds maybe he could do the same but this time for Luna's dream. It was only a theory, however, he wouldn't know unless he tried. He gave one last glance at Silver Blitzs who gave him a reassuring smile. His claw started to glow, it seemed to warp the area around it like a magnifying glass. He released a torrent of the spell and struck Luna's head.

He lost awareness and blacked out.

Author's Notes:

I know I keep saying this but with all the shit that been happening in my life, I just can't write much. I did this before my brother's death and thought I might as well post it. I don't even know if I can finish this story anymore but here is what I have. I hope you enjoyed it. Sorry for letting you guys down.

I worked so hard on this chapter. I hope you all liked it. Now let's see what's going on with Luna here. How will this all end? Find out in the next chapter.

This was edited by TheMysteryMuffin. Thanks again.

Till Next Time!!!!